YouTube launches its first-ever official traits podcast, ‘Like & Describe,’ with content material creator MatPat • TechCrunch

YouTube launched its first-ever official traits podcast at present, the corporate introduced. Hosted by fashionable content material creator MatPat and produced by YouTube’s Tradition & Traits staff, the “Like & Describe” podcast will deal with lesser-known tales behind the largest YouTube traits.

Episodes will launch month-to-month on YouTube’s predominant channel for viewers to observe in addition to all on main podcast platforms for listeners, together with Spotify, Apple, Amazon and Google. Episode one debuted on December 1 with a second episode set to premiere on January 1.

The announcement comes a couple of months after YouTube launched a devoted podcast homepage. It’s doubtless the corporate launched “Like & Describe” to additional money in on the ever-growing podcast business. Plus, MatPat may attract tens of millions of listeners because the creator has over 34 million subscribers in complete throughout his 4 channels–The Recreation Theorists, The Movie Theorists, The Meals Theorists and his gaming channel, GTLive.

Within the first episode, titled “The Rise of the VTubers,” MatPat explores Digital YouTubers (aka VTubers), animated characters voiced by people that garner a collective complete of 1.5 billion views each month, in response to YouTube.

MatPat meets with VTubers like Gawr Gura, a 9,000-year-old half shark/half woman, and Mori Calliope, a Grim reaper that raps in motion-capture music movies, amongst others. He additionally speaks with Earnest Pettie, Traits & Insights Lead of YouTube’s Tradition & Traits staff, content material creator Dave Cherry and different specialists.

Not like most video podcasts the place hosts sit in entrance of a digital camera and converse right into a mic, “Like & Describe” has viewers observe together with graphics as MatPat narrates—much like his video type for his YouTube channels.

The second episode can have MatPat meet with extra particular friends from the Tradition & Traits staff as they supply commentary on the largest movies and creators of 2022.